Luxury Quotes

I like simplicity; I don't need luxury.

Luxury has been railed at for two thousand years, in verse and in prose, and it has always been loved.

Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Beware of luxury! Beware of acquiring the taste and need for it, under the pretext of providing for the morrow.

A change of heart or of values without a practice is only another pointless luxury of a passively consumptive way of life.

I have a kind of objective luxury about my career.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

Pain adds rest unto pleasure, and teaches the luxury of health.

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

Poetry is not a luxury.

First-class travel, provided one hasn't to pay for it oneself, is the most insidiously addictive of life's luxuries.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

On the soft bed of luxury many kingdoms have expired.

For most of the world, civil and political rights... come as luxuries that are far away in the future.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Literacy is not a luxury, it is a right and a responsibility. If our world is to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century we must harness the energy and creativity of all our citizens.

God has blessed me to see the luxury side of things.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

Fitness is a luxury when you are busy!

It's an amazing luxury to say I'm 31 years old and I'm gonna take a year off. That's pretty amazing.

The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word "luxury.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Back then, the excise tax was designed to be a luxury tax for people who owned telephones.

It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you are doing well.

It is a luxury to be understood.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep.

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

Doubt is the tax man pays for the luxury of useless knowledge.

Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!

The work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.